Talmud and Halakhah

Yonah Lavery-Yisraeli offers a careful examination of an enigmatic discussion in the Shulhan Arukh’s laws on neighborly relations. She demonstrates how “radical presence” and attention to sensory details is an essential strategy for halakhic decision-making.

Michael (Avi) Helfand on a recent court case with implications for American Jews as members of both a religious and a minority community.

Dina Brawer explores "certainty" and "doubt" in rabbinic tradition.

Authors mis-citing citations on authors citing authors. What gives? Yiddish.

In response to Tzvi Sinensky's earlier essay, Andrew Bennett presents Jewish legal scholar Robert Cover's and noted antisemite Carl Schmitt's thoughts on elu ve-elu.

A response to Yosef Bronstein's study on Halakhah's engagement with societal norms

Harvard Professor Jon Levenson weighs in on what stops the floodwaters: rabbinic creativity or the Temple!

Jeffrey Burghauser's three poems draw on the biblical and rabbinic imagination.

What sort of powers did Hazal have in the first century? Ari Lamm wonders.

Yaakov Bieler continues the conversation on Talmud education, introducing "action research" to the discussion.